Around 270 passengers of the Qatar Airways filed on Sunday a report with the tourism police at Cairo International Airport after their flight was delayed for seven hours, a security source at the airport said.

A technical engine malfunction forced the passengers of Doha-bound flight number 1307 to wait for seven hours till another plane was provided, he added.

Engineers were recalled but they were unable to fix the problem so the passengers were moved to a nearby hotel till another plane was provided, the source said.